Wayne Hancock, MBBS, PhD, has spent more than a decade trying to strengthen the activity of certain cells in the body that could help control conditions including autoimmune diseases and organ transplant rejection.

Children’s health outcomes can improve, and pediatricians can be satisfied with the process, when the doctors participate in quality-improvement (QI) programs that are required to maintain their board certification.

It is not a pretty picture. Boarded up, dilapidated buildings. Overgrown vacant lots filled with debris. Security bars on homes and businesses. A landscape of disorder surrounds many urban youth who are at higher risk of homicide.

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